I've had two paid jobs, but I've been unpaid in my current job for the last 7 years..... no sick leave, no holidays, no maternity leave, and as for the people I have to work with......!
Three main ones; various side gigs that it would be misleading to count.
And, FWIW, the three posts represent two different careers. First job (aka the false start) was as an analyst in a cubicle; second two positions have been in education.
Given that this covers my entire employment life 6 seems awfully few - especially as three of those (NHS, British Library and Government Department) are technically all one employer for pension purposes.
Don't worry, my partner has had a reasonably varied career so far within one sector, but has even then technically only had 2 jobs (although one involved a bit of moving up and laterally within one department).
I'll need you to clarify before answering: If you get promoted at the same employer, does that count as a different job? If you take on a different role at the same employer, does that count as a different job?
I counted freelancing as one job, being promoted to a higher grade but still doing essentially the same job, with the same title as one job, but doing a completely different job, with a different title as another job.
I think my career (wow, I've got a career, how did that happen?) illustrates that job-numbers vary wildly - although I've had nine jobs in 25 years, eight of them were in the first 15 years - the last two jobs have lasted over ten years between them.
I don't know how to count doing different jobs in the same organisation, either as part of a training programme, or tutoring two different courses. 4 by the conservative count, 7 by the other.
I've counted relatively long-term temping, and part-time, but not the contracts I've had while self-employed, nor my various tutoring stints, nor one-week temp jobs here and there.
On the whole I'm very glad that I've now got one full-time employer with whom I intend to stay, circumstances permitting, as long as I can!
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I excluded temping, part time, freelance and voluntary work as otherwise the definitions started to get confusing and it becomes hard to count ;-).
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And, FWIW, the three posts represent two different careers. First job (aka the false start) was as an analyst in a cubicle; second two positions have been in education.
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I've only had 2 non-temping jobs.
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If you get promoted at the same employer, does that count as a different job? If you take on a different role at the same employer, does that count as a different job?
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I said 2 as I've worked for 2 different companies since I graduated.
However, I've had several different roles where I work at the moment, so technically it's more if you count all of them.
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I think my career (wow, I've got a career, how did that happen?) illustrates that job-numbers vary wildly - although I've had nine jobs in 25 years, eight of them were in the first 15 years - the last two jobs have lasted over ten years between them.
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On the whole I'm very glad that I've now got one full-time employer with whom I intend to stay, circumstances permitting, as long as I can!
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TBH...don't think I can answer that. Even with definitions ;)